Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them. — Ridley Scott Copy Share
As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to… — Ridley Scott Copy Share
